Chapter 183
Chapter 183
LYRIC
He crouched to my level and yanked my hair.
“Let’s see how long you get to put up with the show, Lyric. I’m curious. Are you?”
Caden disappeared for some minutes and reappeared looking calmer. The blood on
his face was gone.
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I was already on my feet, my back leaned against the wall with my arms crossed, cooking up a million scenarios of how I could get away from here. Jaris might be looking for me already.
“What are your plans for me?” I spread my arms. “For how long do you intend to keep me here? I need to go.”
He silently went over to the wine counter where he refilled his glass. He kept his cold silver eyes on me as he drank slowly from his wine.
I shifted uncomfortably on my feet, getting nervous by the second. The urge to get out of here was growing stronger.
“So, you’re actually in love with my brother,” he remarked when he lowered the glass from his lips, then laughed. “You have no idea, Lyric, how much more you just made me interested in stealing that heart of yours from him.”
If I wasn’t so nervous, I’d have rolled my eyes. The guy was a big dreamer.
“Please, let me go.”
He drank from his glass as he approached me. There was nowhere for me to retreat to even if I wanted to. So, I just stood there and let him get close.
He stopped in front of me, lifting a hand to my hair where he wrapped some strands around his fingers.
“Jaris clearly loves you too,” he murmured. “Two hopeless souls thinking they could have a perfect end.” Mirth danced in his eyes before he said his next words. “You know, what if I actually decide to keep you for myself? Like, right now? You’re already in my den. All I’d have to do is keep you locked up and treat you like a slave. Like mine. That way, you’ll be away from Jaris.”
I felt like shadows were closing in around me.
He was right. I hadn’t even realized how bad this could be for me. What was stopping him from actually keeping me
I swallowed tersely. He must notice my profound fear because he laughed.
here ‘forever‘?
“Don’t worry, Lyric.” He released my hair. “I plan on making you come willingly to me. I’ll make sure you don’t have a choice. The only thing that would be on your mind would be Caden.”
I snorted. “Keep dreaming!”
He smiled before drinking from his glass again, emptying it.
Maintaining eye contact, he gradually stepped back with intent.
“Still want to leave?” He walked back to the counter.
“Yes.” Why the hell did my powers not work on him? Was there something wrong with me?
He dipped his hand into his back pocket into his where he retrieved a key and threw at me.
It dropped to the floor, and I didn’t hesitate to pick it.
I was relieved when the key worked on the door. I hurried to the couch to grab my bag.
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Chapter 183
I should’ve ran away. Just kept quiet and saved myself.
But I was too angry. And perhaps the fact that my freedom was staring me in the face gave me some kind of balls.
“You put in so much effort—took the kids, dragged me here—all for this?” Itsked. “If you’re bored, you could actually get a job. The hospital I work at could use a cleaner for example.”
Because of him, I didn’t get to fly with Jaris. I had to lie to him! And who knows what was possibly going on in my absence!
“You think I did this plainly for fun?” He laughed. “You have no idea, do you? ‘This‘ was the plan.”
He set his glass on the counter. “Thanks to you, I got to know your weakness, as well as my brother’s. He’d be a wreck without you. And you, you’re so blown by him you’d lose your sanity if something actually happened to your relationship. You’re willing to do anything for him, including sacrificing yourself for the kids he has with your enemy.” Hetsked. “You gave me the key to breaking you, Lyric. And by breaking you, you do realize I’ll be breaking him.” A cunning smile touched his lips. “How miserable you two would be without each other. I have a lot to plan.”
For a moment there, his words got to me. They mare me fear that I’d actually given myself away. The thought of being away from Jaris was actually driving me insane now. How did t become so obsessed with him?
I faced him properly, forcing my head high. “You’re wrong. If you think you can do anything to break us apart, then you clearly don’t know how far Jaris and I have come. You don’t understand the concept of our bond.”
I turned toward the door.
“Good luck with the final trial tonight,” his voice reached me. “Jaris will be needing plenty of it, because from the looks of it, I doubt he’s going to make it. Too bad you won’t even be there to see it.”
My hand tightened around the strap of my bag as I turned to him. “What did you do?”
He flashed a grin and shrugged.
“What did-”
“If you’re not gone in the next thirty seconds, you won’t be leaving until the end of the day.”
That was enough to get me moving.
As soon as I was in my car, I laughed.
What was I even saying? How could Jaris and I be together? Had I forgotten so soon what I was? Jaris was about to become King. He’d kill me the second he discovered my secret. Even if he didn’t want to, his people would never approve of it, and there was no way he could go against his people.
Both of us, we could never be together.
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